US-based engineering and planning consulting service Michael Baker International has expanded its inspection services with the purchase of a Topcon Falcon 8 unmanned aircraft system (UAS), offering a new perspective for its pilots to achieve precise aerial imagery and mapping during the inspection of infrastructure elements.
Combined with the company’s mobile and static Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) systems for data collection and by utilising the system’s flight stability and high-resolution 32-me
Intertraff, a regular exhibitor at Intertraffic in Amsterdam, is using the event for the world launch of a radically new mobile speed enforcement camera, the D-cop Mobile. As Intertraff director Toni Marzo states, combining a compact, tripod mounted speed camera with multi-lane radar is a first. “Tripod mounted systems have been popular with police forces around the world for many years but they have either been limited to one lane for enforcement or multi-lane versions are extremely bulky with trailing cab
Navtech Radar will be showcasing its new CTS350-X long range radar, the latest unit in its ClearWay automatic incident detection radar system, at Intertraffic Amsterdam 2014.
ClearWay is an all-weather radar system which provides a way of automatically detecting incidents, including stopped vehicles, people and debris on strategic roads, bridges and in tunnels. It uses high frequency radar to scan the whole road surface, both up and downstream. The radar detects objects and then tracking software, which
Gatso has officially handed over a section control project on the A2 from Amsterdam to Utrecht to the traffic enforcement team of the Netherlands National Public Prosecutor’s Office (LPTV). The installation on the A2 is an automatic traffic enforcement solution on a highway with five lanes and two hard shoulders. For environmental reasons, the maximum speed limit has been set to 100 km/h instead of the former 120 km/h.
